Georgios Papandreou

Georgios Papandreou (13 February 1888-1 November 1968) was Prime Minister of Greece from 26 April 1944 to 3 January 1945 (succeeding Sofoklis Venizelos and preceding Nikolaos Plastiras), from 8 November to 30 December 1963 (succeeding Stylianos Mavromichalis and preceding Ioannis Paraskevopoulos), and from 19 February 1964 to 15 July 1965 (succeeding Paraskevopoulos and preceding Georgias Athanasiadis-Novas).

Biography
Georgios Papandreou was born in Kalentzi, Achaea, Greece in 1888, and he graduated in law from the University of Athens. He became a lawyer and entered politics as a member of the Liberal Party of Greece. An opponent of Ioannis Metaxas, he became a prominent politician and held several ministerial appointments from 1923 to 1935. In 1933, he founded the Democratic Party of Greece, which in 1935 became the Democratic Socialist Party of Greece. During World War II, he was active in the resistance movement untilh e was forced to flee, becoming active in the Greek government-in-exile. He returned to Greece in 1944 to head a brief government. He was always, however, unacceptable to the army,  and although his new Center Union party had a wide following, he never held office for any length of time. He clashed with Constantine II of Greece and resigned in 1965. It was to prevent a new electoral victory for his party in 1967 that the Regime of the Colonels seized power. He died in 1968.